skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's mostly just fear mongering because mitigating that risk with organization and a little bit of planning is trivial. Just put the reactors and the fuel reprocessing in different sites under control of different organizations. To produce plutonium usable for nuclear weapons you need to pull the fuel out of the reactor way ahead of schedule for power generation. The longer you keep the fuel in the reactor, the more Pu-240 you produce alongside the Pu-239 and you can't make nuclear weapons with that.

Weapons grade plutonium requires very low concentrations of Pu-240 and that requires running the reactor specifically for this. If the reactor and fuel reprocessing are done by different organizations, then neither can make nuclear weapons without the cooperation of the other.

Managing risk with organization structure is a technique well known to virtually all governments, from western democracies to the worst dictatorships, so this isn't breaking any new ground.
It would be better to simply use the adverb form "usually" and apply it to the word "cost", instead of using the adjective "usual" and applying it to "electric wheelchair".

"Electric wheelchairs usually cost a lot of money."

vs.

"A usual electric wheelchair costs a lot of money."

The second form begs the question, what is it that comprises a "usual" electric wheelchair? What would make an electric wheelchair seem "unusual"? A custom muffler? The statement creates more questions than it provides answers.

The first form however is simple and clear. What about these wheelchairs can be considered "usual"? The cost. They cost about the same. What would make a wheelchair expressed in this context unusual? The cost. It's either cheaper or more expensive. No additional unanswered questions have been created by expressing the statement in this form.
How tf does an electric wheelchair cost that when a standard wheelchair is a few hundred and a solid e-bike is a couple grand?
I would rather see a playlist of musicians filtered by style and experience and then skip through the playlist as I listen and have a contact button. A tinder interface doesn’t really make sense for music.
There is no such thing as a free lunch!
Risky … if it’s automated, they could argue that you’re not actually making a conscious decision and/or not actually doing it yourself, claiming that it doesn’t apply or isn’t an unambiguous indication of your intent to knowingly opt out of whatever the next revision of the arbitration clause may be. It’s far more unclear how that would play out in (US) court than with a manual opt-out once per account per terms of service revision.
What nas system do you use that runs containers? I tried the whole container thing and have to reboot my system every week
This baffles me.

It’s well known that exercise is beneficial for overall health. Sure, some people die doing it just like some people die doing literally anything else.
>I know HN hates formal certification and licenses, but we really need some kind of reliable credential or signal that a candidate can program up to some very low baseline skill level.

Most bachelors degrees in CS from accredited schools are exactly this, regardless of all the smack people talk about new grads. It is rare to see a school teaching CS without a significant programming curriculum. Schools take advice from industry to improve outcomes.

If you can't take the word of a long-standing institution that tested an individual for 4 or more years, what kind of certification are you expecting people to get?

>I've interviewed people who claimed to be practicing engineers for 5+ years, and had big name companies on their resume, but became lost when asked to write a simple (no trick question) program in a language of their choice.

People get nervous, can have a bad day, or be intoxicated. And a significant number of people you're talking to might be overtly lying on their resumes. Your "no trick question" might also just be a bad question: too hard or ambiguous, or very different from what the candidate has seen. Some interviewers are overly confident in their ability to ask relevant and comprehensible questions, or else too particular about what they will accept.
That is an absurd level of reading things into a work. Unless you have actual primary sources which say that's what they intended, I'm calling bullshit.
Couldn’t agree more. I can’t emphasize enough how BIG Microsoft is and how many dimensions of security there are. Nobody has as many attack vectors as we do. I’m pretty confident in saying that. It’s a super hard problem and nearly impossible to enforce all of them from an organizational standpoint. But this is a great step in trying to do so.
Hard to find a good drummer. If you're in a developing world country, even harder because drum kits take up valuable space.

Pro tip: Having a hard time finding a good drummer? Steal one from another band. Of course, your band has to treat them better than the old band. This is a time-tested and proven stratagem.
The use case is that I’m an Apple/iCloud user and want to migrate to Google/Linux/whatever and don’t want to go to 100 sites manually to change my passkey?
>Either we do this voluntarily and as orderly as possible, or it just happens for us. Your response seems to indicate a complete unawareness of the impending situation our species is going to be facing.

Or we use the fact we can still run an industrial society to build CO2 scrubbers using nuclear energy to power them, keeping our improving our living standards while fixing our mistakes.
You must have read a different article, because "starlink doesn't like it" is the only justification or explanation the article offers for their stance. And that is neither a valid justification nor an explanation.
> ... is: no, obviously not. If I were able to detect it, I wouldn't have been incorrect in the first place.

Ok then....can you explain why you speak so confidently, and repeatedly claim that your claims are necessarily factual? You seem to be now confessing that you realize that you do not have the ability to discern that, so why do you not reveal that while engaging in conversation on the internet, and why do you talk as if you do not realize it?

> why are you asking a question with such an obvious answer? Are you really seeking the answer in good faith, or do you have some ulterior motive?

I am trying to figure out if you have self-awareness, what degree you have if any, the form it may come in, etc. You are one of the most extraordinary people I have ever encountered, and I have encountered a lot of very interesting people. Logically, it feels like you must be trolling me, but if you are you have got to be one of the very best out there, because you seem completely sincere to me.
Yet none of this is enforced, otherwise all the (non-compliant) obnoxious cookie consent popups would disappear overnight.

Same with the DMA - Apple is blatantly acting in bad faith and contempt of the regulations and have yet to see a fine.
The Phantom Menace: still terrible after all these years?
I don't think HR can confirm code writing or anything other than start and end dates and job title. So the code writing is not guaranteed. I have seen people in small companies getting by for years without writing any code, literally their source control history was empty, no commits at all over period of several years or a dozen of trivial commits at best. But asking HR is not a bad idea, people believe that like in love and war everything is fair in job applications too. There is a lot of lying on those.
Hah! It had some flaws, but I did enjoy that manga.
> The third step is to figure out what went wrong and what's needed to fix it.

Very much agree.

Lately I've been wondering if depression is nature's way of forcing us to leave behind our current ways of thinking and grow a new neural shell: https://breckyunits.com/doHumanBrainsMolt.html

Lobsters act depressed during molting. It's a painful process. Even if they are comfortable in their current shell, nature does not give them a choice. Proteins escalate, and they must molt. This goes on for their entire lives. I wonder if we will discover a similar mechanism in human brains.
Facebook has probably the most complaints ever and the fines are a rounding error of the profit they made breaching the regulation.
They switched to iPhone not for DNS reasons, but overall security.
I'm always surprised about the comments in these threads.

Genuinely seems many feel threatened by these tools that they need to emphasize the shortcomings.

And don't forget some random line about having studied algos in college and being able to reverse a tree, ugh...
We had an intern decide to follow up his internship by doing the hiring code challenge (basically like an hour to write some slightly more complicate than fizz-buzz stuff) in a different language that he knew much less well than our main language. I don't know if he just didn't want to work with us, or it was just a "I've been trying to learn language X in my free time, let's see how it goes" thing. It was kind of funny because my boss had been angling for him to get hired but didn't really know what to do.
Ok then let's repeal the Price-Anderson Nuclear indemninty act and make nuclear power plants liable for ALL clean up costs if something goes wrong.

For Fukushima that number is circa $800 billion.

If it is as safe as you think it is with a minimum of safety standards then the market will still provide. Sophisticated insurers will be capable of calculating the risk and shouldering all of it for a reasonable fee.

Right?

The act exists, of course, because it definitely isnt safe enough to do that and sophisticated private insurers who are capable of calculating risk better than you or I know this all too well. They won't touch nuclear power without a ludicrously low liability cap.

The ironic thing is that even with this gargantuan implicit subsidy (yes, taxpayer funded insurance that pays out $800 billion in an emergency is a big subsidy), nuclear power still isnt cost competitive with solar and wind.

But, I'm all in favor of letting nuclear plants determine their own safety levels. IF they can get the insurance to cover ALL the costs of dealing with a disaster. Free market, baby.
I'm not confusing anything. I'm familiar with the Chinese Room Argument and I know how LLMs work.

What I'm saying is arguably philosophically related, in that I'm saying the LLM's model is analogous to the "response book" in the room. It doesn't matter how big the book is; if the book never changes, then no learning can happen. If no learning can happen, then understanding, a process that necessarily involves active reflection on a topic, can exist.

You simply can't say a book "understands" anything. To understand is to contemplate and mentally model a topic to the point where you can simulate it, at least at a high level. It's dynamic.

An LLM is static. It can simulate a dynamic response by having multiple stages that dig through an multiple insanely large books of instructions that cross reference each other and that involve calculations and bookmarks and such to come up with a result--but the books never change as part of the conversation.
P.S.: Mark my words, nobody is gonna be replace their limbs and torsos in order to shape molten metal or punch asteroids or whatever while paying off the ruinous loan underwritten by by their employer MegaCorp.

Instead you're gonna clock-in to the work office and and plug your mostly-meat-body in to a nice comfy chair, and from there you will control one of the MegaCorp's array of metal-twisting asteroid-punching robots out in the field. MegaCorp knows they are much cheaper to manufacture and insure, easier to repair, and they can be seamlessly tasked to some other worker without messy surgery.

At the end if the day you will log out and hand things off to the next shift, and you can you go home and hug your family without accidentally maiming them.
The slaughter and takeover in Gaza came after Hamas won the elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...

We haven't had an election since mostly because Hamas would win it. [EDIT: Clearly opinionated, we can/should look at polls since 2006 till today to get a sense of where Palestinians are leaning]

"In light of the Fatah movement’s fragmentation, Hamas holds a clear advantage in potential legislative elections, as shown by public opinion polls indicating a likely landslide victory." - https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84509

As we know from other countries, not all elections are decided by a super-majority, Hamas won by the rules of their "democracy", it would have won in any other elections, and it and its actions enjoy broad support.

[EDIT: I guess we can't tell for sure what results we would get in an election that didn't happen but here is some more colour on the elections of 2021 that were cancelled by the PA:

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/992065009/palestinian-authori...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/palestinians-polls-...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-officially-delays-palest...]

"Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas’ claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes, with a large majority saying they did not see videos showing the militants committing atrocities." - https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-palestinians-opinion...

Where I will agree with you is that the Israeli government has chosen a strategy of divide and conquer and were happy to see the internal battle between Palestinians and use that as an excuse/weapon. But again, you're giving the Palestinians too much of a pass here. Also it's inaccurate to say that Israel funded Hamas (something another comment said). Israel allowed Qatar to pass money into Gaza to pay for government officials salaries.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1NE1ET/

Many countries funded Hamas because every penny sent to Gaza goes to Hamas. Gaza received billions of dollars from many countries.

https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-israel-forei...
A modest proposal.

Instead trying to keep the third world poor why don't we just nuke them?

This has the triple benefit of:

1). Reducing the total population.

2). Reducing CO2 production of the survivors.

3). Starting a nuclear winter.

It's just unethical to do anything else when faced with the impending disaster to the human race and the ecosystem.
FWIW from my own experience with auditors, the process is really kind of superficial. Yes, they can identify the most common checklist-based gaps, and that's what tends to be the low-hanging fruit for attackers as well. But they would never go deep enough to identify something that a determined attacker could exploit.
Yep. If someone's salary depends on the amount of the public disclosures, there will be less disclosures and less transparency.
Texas A&M Qatar campus to close by 2028
Completely sane take on a hugely impactful threat to our current way of life. I would expect nothing less from DHH.
It’s important to know exactly why the code works once it does, you could avoid it but it will catch up to you because that code may have a bug in some exceptional cases
Yup. Sam Altman stood before congress and practically begged them for a regulatory moat. Straight up rent-seeking behavior.

I don't think people give Meta enough credit for their roll in that. Microsoft/OpenAI got cozy and thought they had a huge moat made of $100K hardware to protect their $10B investment. Then Meta shadow drops Llama and within weeks regular folks were running GPT3 level LLMs on consumer hardware. That was such a huge win for opensource and consumers.
“If only they would allow it” isn’t a compelling argument for a technology
damn right, I tried using GPT-4 for to make a text editor enhanced with CodeMirror 6, but the model kept confusing with version 5, and the thing is, they moved stuff around and deleted some modules, so it was a total mess

when you refactor the whole framework you should change its name to keep docs straight, a mere version change is not strong enough for LLMs
For most people on here, they're more likely to believe that the disabled people are needy & expecting way to much rather than the companies behind it including insurance being greedy as hell.
We haven't had an election since mostly because Hamas would win it.

That's not a thing. If you have to make (or keep making; I say random things all the time, but I'm calling you on this one) this kind of argument, it's because all other arguments have abandoned you. I think you should concede it; either way, I can't imagine there being a point to us continuing to talk about this if you're not going to; maybe our premises are just too far apart.
Value isn’t zero sum, or more accurately, most spaces are not winner take all so there is room for multiple great companies to be built. Every company I’ve ever started, I even make a point of reaching out to the competitors in my space to meet the founders. These frienemies are often some of the most fun people to compare notes with. We generally don’t share everything but enough for the conversations to be productive.
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Not every doctor also wants to be a small business owner. Usually what happens is a doctor/dentist/vet started a practice, wants to retire, and sells it to PE.

At smaller places, sometimes the owner sells to PE and stays on - they just don't want to deal with the business side of things anymore.

Quitting your job to start your own thing is never an easy step.
Captured market. Some of the costs are paid by insurance, so it's seen as "not hurting consumers, since, hey! insurance pays for it anyway".

The article does mention this bit to sort of justify the cost:

> To get such a chair, a person needs a prescription, authorization from their insurance company, and a custom fitting from an assistive technology professional. Like a tailor crafting an exquisite suit, these technicians meticulously measure a client’s body to ensure the device’s specifications will match.

In many cases, yeah the wheelchair is specialized and has features that each individual needs. My friend with muscular dystrophy had one of those. But the drivetrain and the lead acid batteries seemed generic enough though possibly a higher quality, but it was definitely not something that should cost $65k.
This is pretty cool. It looks very smooth and natural. I think it's interesting to start publishing work predicated on responding to poor English as a use-case. (Stable to synonyms is how they talk about it in the paper.)

Reading a few comments below, what are these fine wireframe guys/gals good for? Lots; including they can be fed into a controlnet as poses for image generation. Stability of the rendered frames is an ongoing, rapidly improving, area of research. But, these outputs look really nice, and would fit nicely into a lot of text -> animation workflows.
Sure, you watch too many movies :DDD
It’s similar to defence procurement.

If the customer is government with endless budget, inflate costs, and use regulatory capture to maintain the cash flow.
That's true - he was talking about clients though, if my memory serves well.

The main challenge he highlighted is there're no financial incentives for most companies in the industry to stay secure (unless you're a security company) - the punishment (including reputational risk) is just way too small.
Your are right. I actually should add a new script for a daily mail every time there is any update to the tos page.
What are the top examples of legal cases where opting out of forced arbitration was useful?
You've got to get outside and see for yourself because videos can be faked.
What are you using for your site? Loved the entropy styling!
cynically... the customers are very satisfied. The end users not so much.
Not according to the PACER documents I've read; maybe it works on the ground like that but in the sworn testimony it doesn't.
>How about security being part of the requirements to keep a job instead of monetary bonus?

Because the monetary incentives are greater than the position for executives, and they are the ones to be accountable.

Of course this is a form of lip service. Of course there's way more to do. But they are making a very public statement to prioritize security. That's a positive.
That's an interesting idea. I don't know enough to say if using a large offset would be enough to mitigate the downsides of +=2, i would have to read more about it. In actual use you can go directly to using random candidates for each test as a few extra seconds to generate 2 primes would be worth the benefits. In hindsight my simplistic rng() can also probably be better optimized (batch load random bits and cache) to make it faster as the slowdown primarily comes from repeated filesystem access.
The connection not drawn here is about capability and flexibility.

You can make a drill without the clutch/torque adjustment, and it will be simpler to use but less capable. Or using the car example, knowing how to manually select gears gives a greater level of control over the vehicle, but most modern drivers don't know/care enough to learn.

The trend is moving decisions/control away from the user. Precisely because it's easier to allow Apple or Google to make all the decisions, rather than learn, manage and maintain things. Users don't understand a CLI any more than they understand a manual transmission. If we want these things to exist, education must be in the mix.
And the unsafe parts of... Numerous crates and even the stdlib
Why would Wikipedia be an exception?
Good security can be quite annoying to end users, so be careful with that metric
To be fair, background checks take time and cost money. You might want to only do it if you are seriously going to hire. Imagine if every company you applied to called all your references before even making the decision to hire you. Your references would be pissed, even if you've got a good relationship with them.

It is true, however, that people don't generally seem to give enough benefit of the doubt in interviews. This could be an illusion sometimes. If interviewers give you the benefit of the doubt and someone else does way better than you or has a better resume (or cheaper pay rate), you won't get the job.